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Washington,
08/03/2007 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz,
arrived on Wednesday evening in New York for a meeting with the new
UN’s Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, planed for this Thursday,
reported a source from the Saharawi representation in New York.
"The Saharawi President, Mohamed Abdelaziz, who will sojourn in New
York until the end of the current week before he travels on Sunday
evening to Washington, will meeting with the UN Secretary General,
Mr. Ban Ki-moon, The President of the Security Council, Ambassador
Dumisani Kumalo, Representative of South Africa and the members of
the Council", Polisario Fronts’ representative to the UN, Ahmed
Boukhari, indicated to the Algerian Press Agency, APS.
The meetings of the Head of the Saharawi Republic will discuss
specially the questions related to the conflict of the Western
Sahara and the last developments before the report the new SG is
supposed to present to the Security Council on the
Non-Self-Governing territory around the third week of April.
This meeting will be an occasion to analyse the process of the
decolonisation of the Western Sahara on the light of the resolutions
of the international community recommending the organisation of a
self-determination referendum.
"The President of the Saharawi Republic will discuss with the
different interlocutors the last developments of the conflict in the
ex-Spanish colony on the light of the prolonged blockage caused by
the Moroccan rejection of the different resolutions of the UN,
including the Baker Plan", the Saharawi representative underlines.
One of the main preoccupations of the Saharawi party is to transmit
to the United Nations and its new Secretary General in addition to
the members States of the Security Council the total rejection by
the POLISARIO Front of the so-called Moroccan proposition about an
autonomy for the Western Sahara within the framework of the
pretended sovereignty of Morocco on the Saharawi territory.
The Saharawi President will also reaffirm the constant position of
the Polisario Front regarding the fact that the question of the
Western Sahara is a decolonisation problem that can only be resolved
on the basis of the respect of the Saharawi people’s right to
self-determination ad independence.
"Any other approach that opposes this principle is inadmissible and
will be a born-dead approach", the underlines Saharawi
representative, who expressed concern about the need to "put right
the mistakes of judgment or interpretation" that may try to evade
this principle.
"The so-called Moroccan autonomy plan was categorically rejected by
the Saharawi people and its legitimate representative, Polisario
Front. We consider that the unique way to resolve the conflict
consists in the organisation of a self-determination referendum in
the Western Sahara under the aegis of the international community",
he added.
After his visit to New York the Head of the State will visit
Washington to continue the contacts with American congressmen and
senators as well as representatives of human rights associations and
civil society that support the Saharawi cause and are increasingly
more sensitive to the last case of decolonisation in Africa. (SPS)
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